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The 2008 Beijing Olympic

Games (officially known as Games of the XXIX Olympiad) were held in Beijing, capital of China, between 8 and  24 august, 2008. After its conclusion, the XIII Paralympics held from 6 to17ofseptember.

These games became the most expensive event in Olympic history, reaching a cost that would have exceded the 44,000 million dollars, nearly tripling  the final budget of his predecessor, the 2004 Athens Olympics.

SPORTS: Beijing Olympics 2008

included 302 events in 28 sports, they exist in Athens in 2004,with a total of 37 disciplines, some10,902 athletes. Among the changes were added new competitions The following list shows the 28 sports participating in theBeijing 2008 Olympic Games, where he played a total of 302 events: 165 male, 127 female and 10 mixed (indicated in parentheses)

Atletismo (24/23)

Bádminton (2/2/1)

Baloncesto (1/1)

Balonmano (1/1)

Béisbol (1/0)

Boxeo (11/0)

Ciclismo:BMX (1/1)Montaña

 (1/1) Pista (7/3) Ruta (2/2)

Deportes acuáticos:Natación

 (17/17)Natación sincronizada

 (0/2)

 Saltos (4/4)

 Waterpolo (1/1)

 Equitación (0/0/6)

Esgrima (5/5)

Fútbol (1/1)

Gimnasia:

Gimnasiaartística (8/6)Gimnasiarítmica

 (0/2Trampolín (1/1)

Halterofilia (8/7)

Hockey sobrecésped (1/1)

Judo (7/7)

 Lucha:Lucha

grecorromana(7/4)

 Lucha libre (7/0)

Piragüismo (12/4)

 Pentatlón

moderno (1/1)

Remo (8/6) Sóftbol (0/1)

Taekwondo (4/4)

Tenis (2/2) Tenis de mesa

 (2/2)

Tiro con arco (2/2)

Tiro olímpico (9/6)

Triatlón (1/1)

Vela (4/4/3)

Voleibol (1/1)

Voleibol deplaya (1/1)

PARTICIPANTSFor the Beijing Olympics enrolled 204 athletes from national federations affiliated to the International Olympic Committee. This number represents more than 3 countries in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, however, Brunei was excluded at the last moment of the Olympics after the respective National Olympic Committee not to register their athletes to the IOC.

-ATHLETES:Regarding the number of athletes, 11,883 athletes initially enrolled (including the two athletes from Brunei) but only 10,902 athletes participated effectively in the Games, excluding injuries and descalificated. Of these, 6294 were males and 4608 were women.

ORGANIZATION

The organization of these Games was in the hands of the Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympics the Chinese governmente stablished by the Organizing Committee a total of 31sports venues and facilities for carrying out the Games in the city of Beijing. Of these, 12 new facilities were constructed entirelybetween the protruding the National Stadium and National Aquatics Center.

• CYCLING FIELD

National Swimming Center bádmiton Coliseum

baseball field

football field

MEDALS.# País Total

1  China (CHN) 51 21 28 100

2 Estados Unidos (USA)

36 38 36 110

3  Rusia (RUS) 23 21 28 72

4  Reino Unido (GBR)

19 13 15 47

5 Alemania(GER)

16 10 15 41

6  Australia(AUS)

14 15 17 46

7 Corea del Sur (KOR)

13 10 8 31

8  Japón (JPN) 9 6 10 259  Italia (ITA) 8 10 10 28

10 Francia (FRA)

7 16 17 40

CEREMONIES The opening ceremony began on August 8 at

20:00 local, equivalent to 8 pm on 8/8/08, this sequence of number eight is due in part to the tradition of some Eastern countries who see it as a number of luck. Before the start of the ceremony, an event took place priorto 75-minute show in which their own ethnic folk dances and China, conducted by 28 groups. The Olympic torch made  entry into the stadium to be delivered by a number of athletes gymnast Li Ning, who was elevated to the top of the stadium and began to walk as if you were running on it. As Li went on, the roof was projected on a scroll that is going to open showing images of the Olympic torch up to the cauldron, then turn the flame on it.

LI NINGTHE OLYMPIC TORCH

THE NEST, ALREADY KNOWN WORLDWIDE, "SPITS" FIREWORKS

Criticism in general praised the event, considered as one of the most magnificent opening ceremonies performed in the history of the Olympics, although some considered it "cynical" compared to the constant criticism that the country receives about human rights. Subsequently, a series of transcended public would come to light casting doubt on some of the presentations of the ceremony, at which the organizing committee acknowledged the use of pre-recorded images in the presentation of the "fingerprint" pyrotechnical and the girl who sang Ode to the Motherland was not presented during the event.

The closing ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was held in the National Stadium in Beijing on August 24, 2008 at 20:00local time following the idea used in the opening ceremony for the use of No. 8 . The event was directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and featured a series of artistic events. The ceremony began with a fireworks display, followed by the entry of the Chinese flag and the singing of the hymn. A choreographic art performances were held in the center of the stadium before giving way to the entrance of the 204 delegations and athletes. In the center, placed the flags of all delegations and between them made the award of the men's marathon, the last competition of the Games. Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru received the gold medal for his performance in that discipline, as the anthem of his country was run.

Following the presentation of the flag of Greece and its national anthem, BOCOG President Liu Qi gave his closing speech in Mandarin Chinese by thanking the participants and the Athletes. All gave way to the final handover ceremony of the Olympic duties to the city of London, home of the next Olympic Games in 2012.

KENYAN SAMUEL WANJIRU

The Chinese flag and fireworks 

The British flag entered the stadium as they played God Save the Queen. The Olympic flag was handed over by the Peking MayorGuo Jinlong to Jacques Rogge, who handed it to Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. After the handover ceremony was performed a small act of eight minutes of presentation of the new host city. After an introductory video, a traditional red double-decker busentered the stadium together with bicycles and pedestrians, representing urban life in London. Finally, David Beckham went along with the artists and threw a football to the audience, as representing the beginning of the new Olympic period.To conclude the event, a series of images were projected in the event the most memorable moments of the Games, while representing an airport terminal where the athletes returned to their countries, keeping their memories of Beijing as the Olympic flame is slowly extinguished.

THE FLAGS REPRESENTING THEIR COUNTRIES.

THE DOUBLE RED BUS REPRESENTIG LONDON.